01/20/2013
An account under the name of Bradley Manning’s Military Judge Denise Lind has appeared on Twitter. In what seems too good to be true, tweets began appearing declaring Manning’s innoncence and saying she was pressured to prosecute him. After almost 20 tweets, they finished saying she had to get off Twitter now, and “I’m sure I will be getting a call shortly from President Obama.”
I have taken screenshots since I assume the account will be removed soon whether it’s a hoax or not.
12/19/2012
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@YourAnonNews, a Twitter account used by members of Anonymous to relay messages pertinent to the hacktivist movement, has been suspended.
Twitter users aligned with Anonymous and other online collectives announced the suspension just shy of 12 noon EST on Wednesday, December 19. Minutes later, another account affiliated with the group reported that YourAnonNews was suspended for allegedly sharing links to personal information.
“You may not publish or post other people’s private and confidential information,” the @Anon_Central Twitter account says they were told by the social network.
After over an hour, the YourAnonNews account was restored. The group returned to Twitter by posting a message they allegedly received from the Twitter Trust and Safety department confirming that sharing personal information was responsible for the suspension.
YourAnonNews has received added attention in recent days following a campaign-gone-viral that has targeted the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an infamous religious group that has planned to picket the memorials of the victims of last week’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Only hours after the massacre, members of the church said they’d be demonstrating outside of Sandy Hook Elementary School to protest the funerals of over two dozen people slain by 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza. In response, Anonymous members asked others from within the international hacktivism collective to help silence the WBC’s attempt to disrupt the memorial.
“We will not allow you to corrupt the minds of America with your seeds of hatred. We will not allow you to inspire aggression to the social factions which you deem inferior. We will render you obsolete. We will destroy you. We are coming,” members of Anonymous said in a statement released over the weekend.
As the operation against WBC escalated, members of Anonymous posted home addresses, cell phone contacts and Social Security numbers for leading figures within the church. As recently as Thursday morning, YourAnonNews and other Twitter accounts affiliated with the movement tweeted information regarding the suspected whereabouts of Westboro members who had already arrived in Newtown.
The evening prior, members of the online trolling group Rustle League claimed to have hacked the YourAnonNews account. Members of Rustle League attributed themselves with hijacking the Anonymous account as posting a series of tweets directing users to x-rated imagery, although the statement cited by @Anon_Central suggests that it was the sharing of sensitive personal information pertaining to the church that triggered the suspension.
Only days before the suspension, YourAnonNews announced that they had created a back-up account in case of such an event. Minutes after the original account was suspended, @YANBackUp announced that they were requesting more information from Twitter.
With over 700,000 registered followers, YourAnonNews is among the most widely cited Twitter accounts affiliated with the international hacktivism movement. As an unofficial conduit for a loose-knit hive-mind collective, YourAnonNews has been instrumental in announcing operations and missions led by Anonymous. Throughout 2012, those operations have been among the most daring in the movement’s history, targeting governments and federal agencies not just in the United States but across the world.
Following the January 2012 shut-down of the Megaupload.com file-storage site, members of Anonymous waged an online assault on the US Justice Department and the high-powered lobbyists who opposed the website. In that instance, Anons took credit for momentarily taking offline the websites for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the DoJ, the Recording Industry Associate of America (RIAA) and others.
One month later, the WikiLeaks whistleblower site began publishing a massive trove of emails obtained by Anonymous from the Stratfor global intelligence firm. That correspondence has since provided first-hand accounts for several international news stories involving law enforcement corruption and mass surveillance.
Barrett Brown, an activist who has formerly been linked to Anonymous, said, “The Stratfor operation may yield the most revelatory trove of information ever seized” by the collective.
Later on in 2012, Anons helped orchestrate a mass operation to take down websites belonging to the Israeli Defense Forces and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his forces opened fire on civilians on the Gaza Strip. By taking the real-world war onto the Internet, Anonymous made headlines around the globe.
When the FBI infiltrated the group and arranged for mass arrests earlier this year, YourAnonNews tweeted, “We don’t have a leader . . . A movement against authority without leaders drives authority insane; they can’t break down a movement by corrupting the leader.”
“Don’t you get it by now? #Anonymous is an idea. #Anonymous is a movement. It will keep growing, adapting and evolving, no matter what,” the account opined after the arrests of Anons.
Following Wednesday’s suspension, the back-up account wrote, “Remember, YAN isn’t Anonymous… just a part. We move on.”
Related Links:
Anonymous Targets Westboro Baptist Church Over Plans to Picket Sandy Hook Shooting Funerals
12/18/2012
Facebook is suspending user accounts that question the official narrative behind the Sandy Hook school massacre, following a warning by Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance that “misinformation” posted on social media sites could result in prosecution.
An image posted in the aftermath of the shootings that questioned whether “a clumsy 20-year-old autistic kid” could have pulled off the murders of 26 people was deleted and the user’s account hit with a three day suspension.
“I was informed the reason for this punishment was the result of a meme I had shared,” writes the editor of SecretsOfTheFed.com. “Facebook told me it “…violates Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities”. I was further warned that “If you continue to abuse Facebook’s features, your account could be permanently disabled.”
On Saturday, Connecticut state police warned that people posting “misinformation” on social media websites would be “investigated and prosecuted.”
However, this threat could apply to the vast majority of the mainstream media, who in their haste to get out ahead of the story reported numerous details that soon turned out to be completely incorrect.
Given that most of the “misinformation” about the shooting came from corporate media sources, the fact that Facebook is punishing users for asking questions about the proper sequence of events – essentially labeling such activity a thought crime – is a worrying development.
Related Link: Facebook Banning Accounts for Pro-Gun/Pro-Liberty Content
12/16/2012
Westboro Baptist Church’s Shirley Phelps-Roper, along with several other WBC members, announced on Twitter Sunday that they would “sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment” at the funerals of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.
WBC’s announcement did not sit well with the Anonymous collective, who decided action must be taken.
In response to the WBC’s plans, Anonymous tweeted, “It’s so nice of #WBC to provide the internet with a list of their twitter handles…” Roughly one hour later, they revealed their plans for the WBC: “#WBC GodHatesFags Site Admin gets #DOX’d via: Anonymous.” The group then published a list of WBC members complete with e-mails, phone numbers, and home addresses.
In addition to the DOXing, Anonymous has urged people to sign WhiteHouse.gov petitions to have the WBC recognized legally as a hate-group.and have the group’s tax exempt status investigated. Both petitions already have the required amount of signatures.
Also, the hacker collective UGNazi announced they had taken over Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper’s Twitter account. After overtaking the account, the group started re-tweeting comments in which users condemned the ways of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Related Links:
Anonymous: Operation Westboro Baptist Church
Twitter Suspends @YourAnonNews, Account Restored Hours Later
07/05/2012
Al Jazeera’s ‘The Stream’ Twitter account was hacked today by a group labeling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). As soon as the hackers gained access to the account, they began sending out Infowars stories about the real situation in Syria.
One of the first tweets to be sent out after the hack was a link to a recent Infowars story entitled Syrian Rebels Ransack Christian Churches, which documented how rebels were desecrating places of worship.
Another tweet sent out was entitled “The truth finally revealed about Syria’s insurgency,” which included a link to our story from yesterday which was a compendium of videos showing how rebel insurgents were responsible for massacres, beheadings and other acts of brutality, as well as staging fake massacre and death videos to falsely implicate the Syrian government.
The SEA have been responsible for a number of cyber attacks in recent months, including one targeted against the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya News. The group also replaced LinkedIn’s blog page with a picture of President Bashar Al-Assad in military uniform following a hack attack in April. Harvard University’s website was also targeted by the group last year.
The chief hacker who fronts the group is known as “The Pro,” a Syrian who lives in Syria. The Pro describes himself as the leader of “thousands of activists” who “reject the onslaught of information and distortion of facts happening in Syria”.
Asked by Infowars why the group targeted Al-Jazeera, ‘the Pro’ cited a video report by Al-Jazeera Stream which was critical of the group’s hacking activities. He also mentioned Al-Jazeera’s “bad media coverage of what really happening in Syria.”
‘The Pro’ denied that the SEA were an Assad-backed operation, telling us, “We are not supported by anyone – we started this work since 15 March 2011 when we have seen a large numbers of terrorists spread around our country – so we decided to defend our country.”
In a previous interview, the Pro told journalist Faisal J. Abbas how the group were driven by their desire to avenge the murders of two of their members by anti-Assad activists.
As we have repeatedly emphasized, although some claim the SEA is tacitly supported by President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, Infowars is only interested in documenting both sides of the story about unfolding events in Syria, unlike the establishment media which has hyped alleged government atrocities while ignoring those committed by rebels.
We have no allegiance with Assad just like we had no allegiance with Colonel Gaddafi, but to portray events in Syria as a one sided affair, with the rebels, backed by Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists, personified as freedom loving democratic activists, is clearly a phony narrative that is being manufactured to grease the skids for another NATO-led “humanitarian” bombardment.
As we documented in our story yesterday, despite there being innumerable examples of crimes and atrocities carried out by NATO-backed opposition fighters, the media has virtually blacklisted the issue, just as they did prior to the attack on Libya which has now been turned into a sectarian hellhole.
Hacked The Stream Twitter Account Here
